Gsoc 2015

2015-03-20 Thread Sharad Boni
Hello, My name is Sharad Boni, currently in the third year of engineering (Information Technology). I want to contribute to the development of Django. I have worked upon Django before and had made a image search engine upon it. I am fluent in python,have considerable knowledge about django an

Interested to contribute to django for gsoc 15 regarding security enhancements

2015-03-20 Thread Sharad Boni
I am in the third year of engineering(Information Technology) I have background in python 2.7 and 3.3 both, have previously made image search engine in django and currently practicing ethical hacking. I would like to contribute to this topic.Could someone please help me regarding this -- You re

Re: Adding an option on db_index to not create text/varchar_pattern_ops

2015-03-20 Thread Alexander Hill
Hi Marc, Great, that's very interesting reading! A lot of similarities to what I had in mind and a couple of differences. As I imagine the API, Indexes would be backend-specific rather than generic. Field would have a get_db_indexes() method which took a connection as its first argument like get_

Re: Adding an option on db_index to not create text/varchar_pattern_ops

2015-03-20 Thread rodolphe . quiedeville
Hi Alex and Marc, Alex thanks for your answer, to be clear I did not open the discussion to find a solution to resolve my problems, they are done. My goal is to open discussion on indexes support in Dango. And as you right said, the solution is effectively to not create indexes in the models an

Re: Pre-DEP: community support of unmaintained versions of Django

2015-03-20 Thread Collin Anderson
Hi All, I am free of 2.6 websites myself (and nearly free of 2.x completely), but I think this makes sense and I'm certainly in favor of community-maintained longer support periods of django versions, assuming people want to do it :) Two thoughts: - This doesn't _need_ to happen through Django

Re: Gsoc 2015

2015-03-20 Thread Tim Graham
Unless you can pose some more specific questions, I think it's probably not a good choice for you. On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 4:20:15 AM UTC-4, Sharad Boni wrote: > > Hello, > > My name is Sharad Boni, currently in the third year of engineering > (Information Technology). > I want to contrib

Re: Pre-DEP: community support of unmaintained versions of Django

2015-03-20 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi James, Thanks for taking the time to write this up carefully, research the history, etc. I think some form of extended community-based support could work, but I have some concerns about your specific proposal; mostly, that it places too much of the responsibility with the core team. My feeling

Re: Pre-DEP: community support of unmaintained versions of Django

2015-03-20 Thread Aymeric Augustin
Hi James, When I read your proposal I thought -- "this makes sense, but if maintainers are making this commitment, they should be part of the Django team". Only after reading Carl's comment did I realize that they shouldn't be part of the team in order to keep the "unofficial" aspect. This makes